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Although US-led coalition forces succeeded in taking de facto control of Iraq by April 2003, the whereabouts of deposed president Saddam Hussein remained unknown during the beginning of post-invasion occupation. The capture and prosecution of Saddam was an important piece...

Western lawyers involved with the trial of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity in the Iraqi town of Dujail alleged in a New York...

The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants began at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Tuesday. Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, and...

Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as Chemical Ali, ordered the execution of 25 villagers at a time as he crushed a Shi'a uprising in...

Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq...

The Iraqi High Tribunal judge presiding over the crimes against humanity trial of 15 former Iraqi officials ejected two defendants from the courtroom Wednesday for failing to follow the rules of court. During the first...

Fifteen former Iraqi officials went on trial Tuesday for crimes against humanity for their role in attacks against the Iraqi civilian population following the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The defendants - including Saddam Hussein's cousin and former...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the execution of "Chemical Ali" for the Anfal genocide against the Iraqi Kurds should be postponed so that his role in subsequent cases exploring other atrocities can...

Iraqi prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi announced additional charges Monday against Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid for the violent response to the predominately Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq...

The Poisoned Chalice: A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on the Decision of the Iraqi High Tribunal in the Dujail Case, Human Rights Watch, June 22, 2007 [finding that the Iraqi High Tribunal's judgment in the Dujail case contained serious...